F. F. Montrésor

F. F. Montrésor
BornSeptember 23, 1862 Edit this on Wikidata
Walmer Edit this on Wikidata
DiedOctober 17, 1934 Edit this on Wikidata
Sheffield Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationNovelist Edit this on Wikidata
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Frances Frederica Montrésor (23 September 1862– 17 October 1934) was a British Victorian-era novelist, perhaps best known for her debut novel, Into the Highways and Hedges (1895).

F. F. Montrésor was born on 23 September 1862 in Walmer, the daughter of Admiral Frederick Byng Montresor and Emily Maria Delafield. She lived in Kensington with her mother until her mother's death in 1913 and never married.[1][2] She died on 17 October 1934 in a nursing home in Sheffield.[3]

F. F. Montrésor specialized in one-volume romance novels.[4] Into the Highways and Hedges (1895) features Margaret Deane, a clever heiress who marries a strict evangelical street preacher, Barnabas Thorpe.[2] In False Coin or True? (1896), Linda, an orphan, becomes a medium for Moreze, a French mesmerist.[4][5] In The Alien: A Story of Middle Age (1901), a woman in her 30s, Esther Mordaunt, is the heroine of a tale of a man back from the dead and scheming over an inheritance.[4][6] In The Burning Torch (1905), Dolores Ellerson is an orphan with second sight whom, like Cassandra, no one believes.[5] Through the Chrysalis (1910) centers on Barbara, a Becky Sharp-type character.[5][6] In her final novel, The Strictly Trained Mother (1913), Mrs. Betterton escapes from the abuse of her two daughters with the help of her suffragette granddaughter.[5][6]

She also wrote a play about Catherine Parr, Katherine the Quene, that was staged in 1921.[2]

Bibliography

  • Into the Highways and Hedges.  1 vol.  London: Hutchinson, 1895.[1]
  • The One who Looked On.  1 vol.  London: Hutchinson, 1895.[1]
  • Worth While.  1 vol.  London: Edward Arnold, 1896.[1]
  • False Coin or True?.  1 vol.  London: Hutchinson, 1896.[1]
  • At the Cross-Roads.  1 vol.  London: Hutchinson, 1897.[1]
  • The Alien: A Story of Middle Age.  1 vol.  London: Methuen, 1901.[1]
  • The Celestial Surgeon. 1904.[4]
  • The Burning Torch. London: J. Murray, 1905.[5]
  • A Fish out of Water. London: J. Murray, 1910.[5]
  • Through the Chrysalis. London: J. Murray, 1910.[5]
  • The Strictly Trained Mother. London: J. Murray, 1913.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Author: F. F. Montresor". www.victorianresearch.org. Retrieved 2026-04-06.
  2. 1 2 3 Crowther, Michelle (2022-12-01). "F. F. Montrésor (1862-1934)". Kent Maps Online. Retrieved 2026-04-06.
  3. ↑ "Miss Frances Frederica (Freda) Montresor". Coventry Evening Telegraph. 1934-10-18. p. 1. Retrieved 2026-04-06.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Sutherland, John (1989). The Stanford companion to Victorian fiction. Internet Archive. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1528-7.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Daims, Diva (1982). Toward a feminist tradition : an annotated bibliography of novels in English by women, 1891-1920. Internet Archive. New York : Garland Pub. Co. ISBN 978-0-8240-9523-9.
  6. 1 2 3 Kemp, Sandra (1997). Edwardian fiction : an Oxford companion. Internet Archive. Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-811760-5.
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